中英文地名和人名建议选择专门化的地名译典或人名译典;有些缩写词在缩写词典中更容易查到;

    descriptive查询结果如下:

    音标:[dɪ'skrɪptɪv]
    名词复数:descriptives 词频:高频常用词
    基本释义/说明:adj.描述的;叙述的
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    a.
    ①描写的;说明的;
    a story descriptive of the country
    描述国情的故事.
    a descriptive catalog(ue)
    附有说明的分类目录.
    descriptive linguistics
    描写语言学.
    descriptive grammar
    描写语法.
    a descriptive style
    叙事体.
    ②描述得好的;
    the most descriptive writing I have ever read
    我所读到的描述得最好的作品.
    Your words are very descriptive,I understand exactly.
    你这一番话说得很透彻,我理解得很确切.
    -扩展释义
    扩展解释:
    a.1. 描写的;记述的,2. 【语】描写的,3. (学科)描写性的,描述性的
    A name,especially a descriptive nickname or epithet acquired through usage over a period of time.
    绰号名,尤指一描述性的绰号或因一段时间的习惯而得的诨名
    adj.
    描述的,叙述性的,说明的
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:adjective

    例句1. his style uses colourful descriptive language’

    -descriptive的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    Without a description.
    Capable of being described.
    “His service in the Senate, while not describable as stellar, has featured some important moments of gravity and responsibility.”
    “There is more acoustic instrumentation on this album, but that’s not to say that the songs are any more conventional or, indeed, describable.”
    “I quote them because of their effect in lashing Beresford to a passion only describable as insane.”
    Of, pertaining to, or using description.
    Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
    Descriptivist. || (philosophy) Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a particular thing or kind of thing.
    “Much of the disagreement between the prescriptionist and descriptionist views turns on the question of compensation among generations.”

    名词 变体/同根词

    The quality of being describable.
    The quality of being describable.
    A person who describes. || (taxonomy) A person who scientifically describes a new taxon.
    “Monologues are a true storytelling artform, as in actual storytelling around the campfire, and Neil seems to be more of a teller than a describer.”
    “Not a describer nor a ruler nor a mingler and yet there is not a difference that is not greater.”
    “Walter is an appreciator and a describer, not an advocate and a decrier.”
    The characteristic of being descriptive.
    “Partly due to its descriptiveness, to its piecing together of unconnected pictorial threads, the poetry becomes suspended outside time.”
    “The teachers read them and would award extra marks for descriptiveness, inventiveness and illustration.”
    “The secondary classification softens the hierarchy and increases descriptiveness by allowing another relevant condition to be coded.”
    The quality or state of being descriptive.

    动词 变体/同根词

    (transitive) To represent in words. || (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out. || (mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure. || (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa. || (过时的,旧时用法) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
    “What most people discover is that they use the same words to describe both experiences.”
    “Even his allies describe him as forceful, aggressive and determined.”
    “Thus, an arc is described in Figure I from C which cuts the triangle at I and J.”
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